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Stanley Road said:
Because the previous poster seems to think leaving the eu will affect workers rights while those said workers have no rights since forever.
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Some companies break the law and don't pay minimum wage or enforce all worker rights. Outside the EU the Tories will legalise this practice
 
WackyWengerWorld said:
It affects everyones day to day life. Everything at the supermarket is now 10-20% more expensive because of the pound devaluing.

We haven't gone through Brexit yet but if tarrifs/quotas hit as a result of no trade agreement then every business who imports from mainland will have higher costs because of tarrifs. Every business who does a great deal of business in mainland Europe will lose business because they'll be forced to charge higher prices because of the tarrifs. Any of these businesses that go under will see people lose jobs.

Banks have started to leave and if more leave jobs will be lost.

Now if you're in a business that doesn't do much business in the EU you'll be fine but those that do will inevitably hurt.
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Food and drink in the supermarket has not gone up by 10-20% since the vote, that is complete rubbish.

The whole tariff / quota situation is currently hear say, nothing is concrete to what will happen. The UK import quite a lot from Europe, I can't see why the EU would hinder one of its biggest customers by increasing prices through tariffs as the UK will just go elsewhere. At the moment this is just a stance the EU is putting up to ensure they receive the 'divorce payment'.

Again with the banks, I know of some banks that have opened new branches in EU countries but as yet they have not confirmed moving their main headquarters to the EU from the UK. If this was to happen the UK are bound to offer incentives to stay, as they are already doing with lower corporation tax.
 
Josep Dowling said:
Food and drink in the supermarket has not gone up by 10-20% since the vote, that is complete rubbish.

The whole tariff / quota situation is currently hear say, nothing is concrete to what will happen. The UK import quite a lot from Europe, I can't see why the EU would hinder one of its biggest customers by increasing prices through tariffs as the UK will just go elsewhere. At the moment this is just a stance the EU is putting up to ensure they receive the 'divorce payment'.

Again with the banks, I know of some banks that have opened new branches in EU countries but as yet they have not confirmed moving their main headquarters to the EU from the UK. If this was to happen the UK are bound to offer incentives to stay, as they are already doing with lower corporation tax.
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Re the tariff situation, it is not a stance from the EU, if the Uk want the single market that have to pay, if they don't want to pay then they go back to WTO tariffs, simple
 
The coffee machine at work has gone up from 20 to 25p, 25% increase.

Walkers crisps have gone from 50 to 55p, 10% up

I buy Eggs and Mushrooms every week, the former up 6p a box, the latter 4p around 8% each.

Non of this takes into account shrink-flation

Food costs are definitely on the up
 
GloryHunter07 said:
Its the direction of travel that i dont like, we will see how it goes. My partner is one of those immigrant types so might not be welcome anymore.
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When you say not welcome anymore do you mean legally or just an attitude by the British public as a whole towards immigrants?

If it's the former I would be fairly certain the vast majority of immigrants already in the U.K. will be allowed to stay.

If it's the latter I don't think I have seen an attitude change on the whole. The news like to portray daily hate crimes are related to Brexit and are now a common occurrence. These crimes probably happened before the vote they just weren't nationally reported on. There is so much focus on Brexit being related to 'keep the immigrants out' I think the entire notion of why Brexit started has been lost, which on the whole was how much it was costing in relation to what the UK got back.
 
Mozza said:
The coffee machine at work has gone up from 20 to 25p, 25% increase.

Walkers crisps have gone from 50 to 55p, 10% up

I buy Eggs and Mushrooms every week, the former up 6p a box, the latter 4p around 8% each.

Non of this takes into account shrink-flation

Food costs are definitely on the up
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Everything's gone up in my local store also.
 
Inflation statistics produced by the ONS every month Ken. I can't be arsed looking what's in the basket at the moment, but crisps and eggs should be there, I'd have thought.
 
Josep Dowling said:
Food and drink in the supermarket has not gone up by 10-20% since the vote, that is complete rubbish.

The whole tariff / quota situation is currently hear say, nothing is concrete to what will happen. The UK import quite a lot from Europe, I can't see why the EU would hinder one of its biggest customers by increasing prices through tariffs as the UK will just go elsewhere. At the moment this is just a stance the EU is putting up to ensure they receive the 'divorce payment'.

Again with the banks, I know of some banks that have opened new branches in EU countries but as yet they have not confirmed moving their main headquarters to the EU from the UK. If this was to happen the UK are bound to offer incentives to stay, as they are already doing with lower corporation tax.
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It's natural prices go up as inflation rises. RPI stabilised in March, but expect it to jump up in April.

The UK is a big customer of the EU, but you can't just 'shop elsewhere' if you want a BMW or some Camembert.

There isn't much the government can offer the banks to keep their main FX/bond trading desks in the City when we loss passporting rights.
 
Mozza said:
The coffee machine at work has gone up from 20 to 25p, 25% increase.

Walkers crisps have gone from 50 to 55p, 10% up

I buy Eggs and Mushrooms every week, the former up 6p a box, the latter 4p around 8% each.

Non of this takes into account shrink-flation

Food costs are definitely on the up
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Angus burgers in my supermarket went from 2.99 euro to 3.95 and I'm not in the uk

Food prices go up
 
Mozza said:
Right, it's up to the UK government to enforce it, so why are you so angry at the EU for Westminsters failure?
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Because that's what British politicians have been doing for years even more pronunced than in other EU member states.

Anybody actually interested in politics could have easily read every EU draft regulation, every EU draft guideline and monitored which MEP in the parliament, which country in the concil had voted in which way. It would have shown that it were more often than not British politicians leading the line of decreasing labor rights and labor standards.
 
Hang on, what will happen to the price of malt whisky of Scotland legs it? I'd just have to drive up and buy a case or two I suppose.

Or if border checks come in then being a hillwalker I might have a nice little sideline carting heavy rucsacs down through the Cheviots.
 
Paul the Wolf said:
No wonder the British are so badly off if this is what's normally in their shopping basket
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It is a bit odd. Surely whatever percentage of the population that cycles only buys a helmet once or twice in their lifetimes. I thought the inflation basket was meant to represent regular purchases.
A bottle of gin in every weekly shop would be going some too.
 
Jippy said:
It is a bit odd. Surely whatever percentage of the population that cycles only buys a helmet once or twice in their lifetimes. I thought the inflation basket was meant to represent regular purchases.
A bottle of gin in every weekly shop would be going some too.
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Is this what May means when she says there are complex reasons why nurses have to go to foodbanks, because they are buying cycling helmets instead of food.
 
Chorley1974 said:
Like that fecking mattered
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Of course it fecking mattered. How else would euro clearing have been possible in London. The UK got their special wishes fulfilled all the time, and was one of the main driving forces for the EU expansion 2004. It stayed out of the € and Schengen, it even established English as one of the main working languages within the EU, not that many English speaking countries on the continent, are there!?

Now that the British departure is happening, could you please stop with your ignorant lies?
 
Classical Mechanic said:
I'm not saying it will happen in practice. It is a key negotiating point clearly. I fully expect us to keep contributing in order to get a deal. But the UK should take a strong negotiating stance initially.
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What does that mean, in this case? I see no reason why we wouldn't have to pay for our liabilities already accrued, in terms of EU pensions, or funding for projects already agreed to. For what reason would we possibly not pay for those things?
 
Abizzz said:
Of course it fecking mattered. How else would euro clearing have been possible in London. The UK got their special wishes fulfilled all the time, and was one of the main driving forces for the EU expansion 2004. It stayed out of the € and Schengen, it even established English as one of the main working languages within the EU, not that many English speaking countries on the continent, are there!?

Now that the British departure is happening, could you please stop with your ignorant lies?
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Not adopting the euro is the best decision ever.

Your line about the english language is just false
 
ThierryHenry said:
What does that mean, in this case? I see no reason why we wouldn't have to pay for our liabilities already accrued, in terms of EU pensions, or funding for projects already agreed to. For what reason would we possibly not pay for those things?
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The sticking point is that the EU wants the 'divorce bill' settled before any trade deal is agreed, if we just happily agree to pay we are likely to get shafted on the trade deal. You don't give up some of the small leverage you have easily.
 
Classical Mechanic said:
The sticking point is that the EU wants the 'divorce bill' settled before any trade deal is agreed, if we just happily agree to pay we are likely to get shafted on the trade deal. You don't give up some of the small leverage you have easily.
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You will get shafted anyway. Small market lacking industry vs. big market with a healthy industrial sector. Nothing to win there.
 
Jippy said:
The EU does have a lot of scratty little markets tbf and huge drains like Greece et al. Still obviously a massive market collectively though.
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Which is all that matters. Huge parts of China are utter shitholes, still one of the biggest markets in the world.
Collectively, the EU is even more important than China.
 
fcbforever said:
Which is all that matters. Huge parts of China are utter shitholes, still one of the biggest markets in the world.
Collectively, the EU is even more important than China.
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Good comparison, china, workers rights nill

Eu, slavery on the up. Ace
 
Pogue Mahone said:
That thread is horrifying.
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Yep, just read it. Baffling how some people seem to quite genuinely think May would be any more competent at dealing with this than any of the opposition leaders.
 
Cheesy said:
Yep, just read it. Baffling how some people seem to quite genuinely think May would be any more competent at dealing with this than any of the opposition leaders.
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Strong and stable leadership.
 
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